[AusNOG] Application Firewall Recommendations

[Peter Tonoli]

+1 again for PfSense. Running it under KVM as a small VM to do NAT and firewalling in an environment that's constrained for ipv4 addresses. 

Pretty much set and forget - very long uptimes as well. 

----- Original Message -----

> From: "David Walsh" <davow at onthenet.com.au>

> To: ausnog at lists.ausnog.net

> Sent: Friday, 9 August, 2013 1:29:45 PM

> Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Application Firewall Recommendations



> +1 PfSense





> On 09/08/2013, at 1:26 PM, "Joshua D'Alton" < joshua at railgun.com.au >
> wrote:



> > pfsense is pretty hard to beat as a fairly full-featured firewall,
> > I've used it in a lot of situations that don't warrant the cost of a
> > cisco or similar setup. Works brilliantly in a VM as well.




> > On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 10:27 AM, Alex Samad - Yieldbroker <
> > Alex.Samad at yieldbroker.com > wrote:






> > > Hi




> > > So what is the current industry thought on using VM firewalls. And
> > > to
> > > take that further what is the thought of using a plan OS for a
> > > firewall, thinking Linux or BSD.




> > > Alex








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Peter Tonoli < peter at medstv.unimelb.edu.au > +61-3-9288-2399 
IT Manager 
The University of Melbourne - Eastern Hill Academic Centre, St. Vincent's Institute and O'Brien Institute 
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